Diet The diet of the atelopus frog is mainly small arthropods, which can be found in abundance during the dry season but the frogs are adept at finding food sources during every time of the year. In fact, the frogs usually stay in the same place for long periods of time. They have no real reason to move as their bright colors usually signal to other creatures that they are toxic and shouldn’t be eaten. There is only one known predator of the species and that is the parasitic sarcophagid fly, which damages the frog by laying its larvae on the surface of the frog’s legs. The larvae then burrow inside of the frog and eat it from the inside out.
The faith of this special frog
This frog is critically endangered but the species could make a change. Only careful observation, protection, and care of this species will allow it to be around in the future. These species are fairly new so we can’t really tell much about them but the species may be decreasing but we are hoping for an increase in population. But other wise they are thriving. HABITAT located in one lowland site that is located along a stream and tributary on a coastal range in Costa Rica. The atelopus frog only enters the water during the breeding seasons.
these frogs don't jump far
atelopus
Diet
The diet of the atelopus frog is mainly small arthropods, which can be found in abundance during the dry season but the frogs are adept at finding food sources during every time of the year. In fact, the frogs usually stay in the same place for long periods of time. They have no real reason to move as their bright colors usually signal to other creatures that they are toxic and shouldn’t be eaten. There is only one known predator of the species and that is the parasitic sarcophagid fly, which damages the frog by laying its larvae on the surface of the frog’s legs. The larvae then burrow inside of the frog and eat it from the inside out.
The faith of this special frog
This frog is critically endangered but the species could make a change. Only careful observation, protection, and care of this species will allow it to be around in the future. These species are fairly new so we can’t really tell much about them but the species may be decreasing but we are hoping for an increase in population. But other wise they are thriving.
HABITAT
located in one lowland site that is located along a stream and tributary on a coastal range in Costa Rica. The atelopus frog only enters the water during the breeding seasons.
these frogs don't jump far